Anli Sugano's 1st, called いち from 1978

This was not requested nor should it be.  On the other hand, I urge you to go ahead and request anything in the comments section since these usually fall into two categories, either I have the digital copy and will gladly post it or I will try to seek it out if I don't already possess it to determine if it's any good.  (Of course there's a third category, music I have and I promised to never share, which I will quickly mention only to never speak of again...)

The information, if need be.  I found the artist quite entrancing with her slightly more feminine Bette Midler voice and varied repertoire on her sophomore effort (as they love to say in Rolling Stone).  This is along the same lines, with a mix of seventies pop and funk.  It's hard to tell if they're cover songs or these are original Japanese 'copies' of pop hits.

Tracklist (translated)

A
1. My Trumpeter
2. Midnight 
3. Big Time Suzie
4. Akujyo Street ....Bad Women' Street
5. Tramp ...Card Game
6. Hisame ...Cold Rain Like Ice

B
1. Kodokuna Kankei ....Lonely Relatioship
2. Subway Suzie
3. Yume Zukushi ....Full of Dreams
4. Samui Tegami...Cold Letter
5. Imouto Tachi E ...To my little sisters 

First track as sample:





Enjoy it.

Anli Sugano's wonderful pop-star 2nd called Shining Wave from 1979

Anli (or Anri) was a Japanese pop-vocal jazz singer active in the late seventies through the eighties.
In that period she put out quite a few albums, and this her second is particularly interesting, well-crafted and enjoyable in the standard pop tradition of that era-- think Stephen Bishop, Roberta Flack, Phoebe Snow, etc., with perhaps a couple of trivial nudges towards progressive composition, such as was common for pop artists of the time (e.g. Joni Mitchell's 1977 Paprika Plains opus).

For those like me who detest cover songs, it's a bit of a slog at times, but I thought some tracks were very artistically done with some of the sensitivity of my old favourite Radka Toneff (though obviously not as suicidally depressing).

Eric Carmen's old pop song Change of Heart, magnificently done here:





Enjoy a little change of pace...